How an AI tool is helping UK clinicians save time and be present with patients

Morriss also sees the benefit as a doctor when he is interviewing a patient.

"In the emergency department, you're seeing the patient fresh off the street," he said. "All you've got is what you can glean by talking to them (…) I'm probably talking for about 10 minutes, which doesn't sound a lot, but there's a lot of information which you've distilled in that time."

Using Dragon Copilot preserves that conversation accurately, meaning it can be consulted if there's a question.

"I now have confidence that I can have a fairly detailed discussion with a patient, knowing in the background it's all being captured and that I can go back to it," he said.

Morriss points out that there is potential to capture and use the human voice in service to medicine in novel ways.

He cited the example of a paramedic briefing the attending physician at the emergency ward about what has been observed in a patient who has just been transported. Or in another case, when a team of doctors from different disciplines gathers to consider a complex case. "In all honesty, much of that information is now currently lost. But in the future, that will all be in the record."

"Clinical medicine is all about communication," he said. "It's all about your interaction with the patient and with other colleagues, and what do we use? We use our voice."